San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.


tory In East Africa.
Justice Woods, OF the Washington su-
preme court. is very Ill.
James w. Hyatt, Of Connecticut, sue
oeeds Jordan, as u. 5. treasurer.
Imperial bank at Berlin will reduce Its
discount rate.
State Sunday School convention is In
session at Tyler.
Montrose defeats Jim Gore for the big
purse at the Kentucky Derby.
The American legation In the City of
Mexico removes to new quarters.
Dorsey does not endorse Roosevelt,
but considers him remarkably fresh.
The M. K. church south wants $780,
OOO missionary money.
Favorable crop reports from North
Texas continue to come In.
Mrs. McI.ellsnd, wife of the governor
OF Michigan during Pierce's sdministra-
ton, is dead.
Two barb wire manufacturers OF Chi
cago assign; Sherman & Marsh and
Schnahel & Co. No preferred creditors.
l.amoreaux sues the French journal
which attacked LOhengrin and drove 1t
from the stsge, for 5000 francs.
Annual meeting of st. Louis and San
Francisco stockholders elect Geo Gould
director instead of his father.
Base ball fines for Sunday playing In
Birmingham net Sl0O and The crowds
pay the fine.
Madame Primer sues the American
opera company for $1,000 salary and
5000 reputation.
The Belgium deputies approve the
bill laying import duties on cattle and
meat.
The cargo OF La Champagne, the
beached steamer, has been saved by
salvers.
British government sanctions the new
bait.law of New FOundlsnd. 1t goes in
to effect in 1883.
A collision in the Straits of Settlement
of the coast OF China results In the loss
OF $50 lives.
About 40 delegates are 10 attendan e
at the State Firemens' association at
Tyler.
One OF the Pennsylvania Panhandle
railway freight thieves is convicted and
another pleaCs guilty.
Cherokee council recommends rebuild
ing OF the seminary, recently burned,
and insuring all public buildings.
Chicago bricklayers and stonemasons
strike because pay day Is not changed
from Monday to Saturday,
A 14-year-old boy In IOnia, Mich,
shoots his l2-year-Old sister so ''she will
bother me no more"
George Carter, confidence man. OF
Mamnhil nnhar IN RAJ
capes from the sheriff.
Perry, 81; Pasco. II; Bloxham. "a:
Goodrich, republican, 10; scattering,
democrats, 3.
Farmer Highs family, twelve miles
from Wills Point, poisoned by a oolored
boy.
The pope will send MOnsignor Agliar-
di to England with his jubilee cOmpli-
ments.
Uncle Sam does not want the Mexican
officers shot who raised the row at Nog-
ales.
Wild West show gave a private exhi-
bition for Queen Vic's benefit yesterday
evening.
FL PasO has one suicide, one man
Killed by train, one mao murdered.
horses burned, at Fort Bliss, two miles
out.
Jas. Cunningham Of Washington, Ind.
RECEIVERS $4,000 for the burning Of his
starch factory by sparks from engine OF
Evansville and Terre Haute X. X.
At the sale of Alexander's yearlings,
Kentucky thoroughbreds, prices ranged
from $500 to $500, except nine that sold
all the way up to $4,000. The 80 head
brought $4,000.
A congress Of English speaking Ro-
man Catholics will meet 10 London
shortly to discuss religious progress and
other subjects. 1t is expected that
American prelates will attend. CardI-
nal Manning is the leading spirit in the
movement.
The shooting of Gambrell, editor OF
Sword and Shield, Jackson, Miss, is lead
ing to very serious condition of public
feeling, which is about evenly divided
as to the guilt or innocence Of Col. Ham,
ilton and his friends.